Barbarea brachycarpa Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 5: 80. 1844.

Type: “Hab. in muscosis madidis regionis alpinae Olympi Bithyni ad originem vallis Kirkbounar in consortio Arenariae rotundifoliae MB., fructiferum Aug. 1842 legi. [Boissier]”.

Holotypus: TURKEY: “Olympus in pratis humidis de Kirkbounar”, VIII.1842, Boissier s.n. (G-BOIS [G00332113]; iso-: G [G00446055]) .

Notes. – The above G duplicate is tentatively recognized as an isotype because of the incomplete locality data and collection in 1843 instead of 1842.

COODE & CULLEN (1965) treated B. brachycarpa as a synonym of B. minor var. eriopoda N. Busch (Fl. Cauc. Crit. 3(4): 318. 1909). However, as pointed out by GREUTER et al. (1986), B. brachycarpa has priority over B. minor K. Koch (Linnaea 19: 55. 1846).

The species was divided by PAROLLY & EREN (2006) into several infraspecific taxa, and our plant belongs to subsp. brachycarpa .